Classes and Constructors

[Semirxbih]

Looking at getting some basic help on proper construction of this project.. Here is the assignment:

Student.h
– In this file, you declare a class named Student.
– This class contains 4 private attributes, name, idNumber, department, and year.
– name is a struct that contains two strings: firstName and lastName.
– idNumber is an integer and department is a string.
– year is an enum that contains four possible values: FRESHMAN, SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR, SENIOR.
– Note that struct and enum declarations should be placed before the class declaration.
– Define public getter functions and setter functions for all 4 attributes, that is, 4 getters and 4 setters.
• Student.cpp
– In this file, you provide definitions for 3 constructors of Student.
– The first constructor takes 4 parameters, one for each attribute, then initializes the attributes accordingly.
– The second constructor takes 2 parameters, one for name and one for idNumber, then initializes those
attributes accordingly. The remaining 2 attributes are initialized as “” (empty string) and FRESHMAN,
respectively.
– The third constructor is a default constructor that takes no parameters. Here, the 4 attributes are initialized
as “” (firstName), “” (lastName), 0 (idNumber), “” (department) and FRESHMAN (year), respectively.
• hw3.cpp
– In this file, you define main function.
– In the main function, first create at least 3 Student objects.
– The first object must be created using the first constructor (4 parameters).
– The second object must be created using the second constructor (2 parameters).
– Since the second constructor does not provide proper information for department and year, set those
values by calling their associated setter functions.
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– The third object must be created using the default constructor.
– Since the default constructor does not provide proper information for any attributes, set all 4 values by
calling their associated 4 setter functions.
– After creating all the objects, call a function named displayStudent for each student to print all the
information (all 4 attributes) about the student. Note that this function must be called at least 3 times to
print all objects. The displayStudent function must have the following prototype:
void displayStudent(Student);
– When displaying year, make sure the freshman year starts at 1, not 0.
Example run:
Name: Roger Federer
ID Number: 12345
Department: Art
Year: 4
Name: Rafael Nadal
ID Number: 56789
Department: Computer Science
Year: 3
Name: Novak Djokovic
ID Number: 13579
Department: Physics
Year: 1

Here is what I have so far, and I can't seem to understand the rest.

Here is my Student.h file:

#ifndef STUDENT_H_EXISTS
#define STUDENT_H_EXISTS

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

struct name {
  string firstName, lastName;
};

class Student {
private:
  struct name;
  int idNumber;
  string department;
  int year;
public:
  Student();
  int getidNumber();
  string getName();
  string getdepartment();

  enum getyear {
      FRESHMAN = 1,
      SOPHMORE = 2,
      JUNIOR = 3,
      SENIOR = 4
  };

  void setName() const;
  void setidNumber() const;
  void setdepartment() const;
  void setyear() const;
};

#endif

Let me know if I'm on the right track or give me any help/tips I can use, this is a beginner C++ class so nothing fancy.